Quotes About Actor

I'd always wanted to go to drama school. My life plan was to get into drama school and become an actor, but it took me three years.

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God...

The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

How many times, in any actor's life, do you get to be a part of something that has a legacy like [Buffy]? I think that's only fortunate. I don't see the negative.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

It's really weird to be in more than one franchise because an actor's life is so nomadic, and so it's a real privilege to get back together with people.

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

I have been very lucky for most of my adult life to be working as an actor.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

It was really fun to bring that scene to life. I can't wait to see it at the premiere with the fans.

I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts.

if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

Twice today I've got to play Hamlet, this great part that I shall never play again. And I can't do it today. I could do it tomorrow, or next week, but I can't do it now.

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news.